LeBron James has probably heard every name in the book from courtside fans over the years, but he rarely reacts to them. However, during the third quarter of Game 5 between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets, a woman was shouting at James, and he decided to give her a scare in return.
She definitely was not expecting him to react and flinched. An account on X posted a video that showed that James allegedly was complaining about the officials calling a foul on him at that point, and it was what led to the woman calling him a crybaby.
James smiled as he walked away after scaring her and the woman kept calling him a crybaby. Afterward, the 39-year-old appeared to mock the woman and seemed to have said, “Scary a**” after that.
I wish I could say that woman learned her lesson but she clearly did not. Well, at least James had some fun at her expense for a bit.
Unfortunately for LeBron, he was not having a lot of fun at the end of this game. The Lakers led by nine points when this incident occurred and it was their largest lead of the night. Just like in the first three games of this series, though, the Lakers weren’t able to hold on.
The Nuggets went ahead just minutes later and a back-and-forth affair ensued after that. Two free throws from LeBron tied the game at 106 with just 26.1 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, but Jamal Murray sunk his second game-winner of the series to clinch a 108-106 win.
LeBron had 30 points, 9 rebounds, 11 assists, and 4 steals in this Game 5, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Nuggets from eliminating the Lakers for the second year in a row. Just like last year, a lot of the games were close, but Denver just executed better down the stretch to knock out Los Angeles.
